In a previous blog post, we covered the talks during the Computational Mathematics with Jupyter workshop and in this post we will mention some of the achievements of the workshop attendees during the sprint. If you do a search on Wikipedia, "a sprint is a get-together of people involved in a project to further a focused development of the project", but at this sprint attendees worked on more than one project. Some people are sceptical about the value of sprints, but we hope that the Jupyter sprint helped them change their mind.

Other work

Conclusion

GAP, Singular, SageMath, and Jupyter got a lot better because of the five half-day sprint from the workshop attendees. GitHub has a contribution visualisation that allows us to see how much some of the attendees contribute with code or documentation to the projects involved compared with other weeks. The workshop is the third column from right to left on the image below.

If you are still sceptical about sprints, try to participate in one and share your thoughts with us...